This is a nail biter
This condition may manifest in symptoms such as rapid heart rate, trembling, excessive worry, sense of impending doom, avoidance, and trouble concentrating which impacts an individual's daily functioning.
Anxiety
This symptom involves false thoughts and beliefs that are not based on reality.
Delusions
This condition is defined by difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or waking up too early and being unable to return to sleep.
Insomnia
If someone has "Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia," what are they ironically afraid of?
Long Words
This famous town featured in the Disney classic Hocus Pocus is famous for celebrating Halloween year round, even the high school mascot is a witch.
Salem, Mass
This grounding technique involves splashing cold water on your face or holding an ice cube during a spike in intense anxiety that triggers this physiological mechanism to lower your heart rate.
the mammalian dive reflex
This symptom involves sensing things that do not exist such as hearing voices, seeing things not there, and also may affect smell, taste, and feeling.
This sleep condition which leaves the individual far from their bed typically occurs during Non-REM dep slow-wave sleep usually in the first third of the night.
This folktale creature is believed to steal misbehaving children on Halloween night.
The boogeyman
A monster jumping out at you in a haunted house may cause you to experience one of these Five behavioral survival responses.
Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn, Flop
This is the most common age group in men and women who start showing symptoms of schizophrenia.
Men Age 21-25, Women age 25-30
This disorder is characterized by repeated, extremely dysphoric, well remembered dreams that usually involve efforts to avoid threats to survival, security, or physical integrity causing significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
Nightmare Disorder
If you suffer from "Nomophobia," what modern anxiety are you experiencing?
The fear of being without your mobile phone (short for no-mobile-phone phobia).
This candy has been ranked the #1 candy pick by trick-or-treaters.
Reese's peanut butter cups
This 2024 Pixar film follows a teen transition introducing a frantic new emotion, Anxiety, culminating in the depiction of a realistic panic attack.
Inside Out 2
Leonardo DiCaprio stars in this movie which his character investigates the disappearance of a psychiatric hospital patient only to find he has been the patient of an experimental therapy to treat his delusions all along.
Shutter Island
This 1984 Wes Craven movie features a supernatural dream-stalker who terrorizes teenagers while they sleep.
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Jeff Daniels and John Goodman star in this movie which follows a California town invaded by spiders.
Arachnophobia
Before pumpkins were popularized, this vegetable was used to carve jack o' lanterns
Turnips
This branch of the autonomic nervous system is primarily responsible for triggering the fight or flight physical response during a moment of high anxiety.
Sympathetic nervous system
This highly controversial surgical procedure, disproportionally to women, was once used to treat conditions such as schizophrenia, severe depression, behavioral disorders, and severe depression resulting in apathy, loss of initiative, emotional flattening, and impaired social behavior.
This phenomenon happens during deep NREM sleep with intense autonomic arousal and little story recall, whereas this phenomenon occurs during REM sleep and have detailed visual narratives.
Sleep terrors
nightmares
This RL Stine classic horror series turned Netflix movie trilogy follows a group of teenagers uncovering the truth about the legend of a woman hanged for witchcraft in 1666 which place a curse on their town Shadyside.
Fear Street
This Irish band wrote Zombie which is often played on Halloween, but is actually a protest song about innocent children being killed during the 1993 troubles in Northern Ireland.
The Cranberries